This week we meet Timothy Simons, the actor who played Jonah Ryan: the White House liaison to Vice President Meyer’s office on HBO’s Veep. He swung by the Pop Life bar to talk about working in a video store, auditioning for a part he didn’t think he was right for and the creative insults directed at Jonah on the show.

Then, Phillip Norman on Mick Jagger. He is a biographer who specializes in writing big, thick books on rock and roll artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly and Elton John. As the Rolling Stones continue their No Filter US Tour, I’ve gone into the vault to find an interview I did with Norman just after he wrote the definitive book on Mick Jagger